How YouTube Ate Hollywood |
YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday this year, and no one can blame it for feeling jubilant. The platform—which has hosted 20 trillion videos since launching in 2005—has overcome rampant underestimation and sporadic demonization to become the second-most visited website in the world (behind its parent company, Google). Two and a half billion people watch YouTube videos every month, and its content has partially, or completely, replaced traditional television viewing for many of them. In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Joy Press examines how YouTube came to eat Hollywood’s lunch, and speaks to creators who are hungry for more than just your attention. (They’d like a few Emmys too, please.)
Elsewhere in HWD, Hadley Hall Meares dives into the uncommonly entertaining memoirs of Carrie Fisher; Richard Lawson wonders why, with one glaring exception, 2025 has been such a bad year for movies so far; Rebecca Ford asks whether the Academy can finally force Oscar voters to actually watch all the movies they’re supposed to; and Jerrod Carmichael opens up to Chris Murphy about his new stand-up special, Don’t Be Gay. |
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